how do they get away with all this & where di I stand?
To whom this may concern…
In October 2007 I started renting (and signed a minimun five year lease) a house in Innisfil on the fifth line, from a mojor corperation located in toronto somewhere. It is a numbered Ontario company. The rent was to be paid to a realestate agent in Alcona.(In a century 21 ) I have been asking for my lease on many occassions in which I was unsuccessful. (he had forgetten, couldn:t catch me), or perhaps just did not care..I have been down to his office on many occassions also to just get it, He was never there and the ladies at the front desk said that they had no access to his office. .My issue is that I have lived in this same home since I was ten years old, with a different landlord, I am now 35.
On April the 28th as I was upstairs cleaning, a black dodge pick-up came down my driveway,and parked in my parking spot two men got out and started to dress in their hunting cloths, continued as they pulled their shotguns from their cases and loaded them. They proceeded to walk through my front yard and between my barns in which I also rent, as was in my lease.. This is where I should have dialed 911 right…But no I interfeared by going out my front door and asking them what they thought they were doing..
I was told by one of the people that I only rent the house and they were going hunting. I told them they were tresspassing and they had no right to be on the property that I was renting, This turned into an arguement and when I told them there was such things as respect, he was very angry at this point… He finally revealed that he was infact the land owner… and showed me his I.D. I repeated my self and point blank told him that as a londlord he should respect his tennants, hunter ethics are not parking and and carrying loaded guns through your tennants yard.where their children and animals play (Thats not acceptable) that I was still waiting for my lease,and getting tired of chasing the agent for it and that he still had no business parked in my driveway..Let alone argueing with me on my poarch with his loaded gun over his shoulde I was very uncompfortable at this point so I told him that I was not happy and could have called 911 first for tresspassing and then because I have never seen him before I could have thought he was a nut bar. God I could have been killed. What was I thinking..
He said that he thought it was the obandoned house next door that was rented, ya right I am not stupid I said, when you pull into a driveway and see a Jonh Deer ride on lawn mower, a covered skidoo, cut grass, wood pile still from winter with an axe and trailer still there,my daughters pet gaot running around the yard, and new barqicue on the porch no on lives here.( I guess people just move and leave their expensive bolongings at their old house right.) I told them they could leave and next time I would call 911, They threw thier guns in the truck and left.
Monday I called the agent and asked him for my lease again, He said he had talked to the land owner and that I had put myself in a very bad situation, so I told him what had happened on the Saturday and that if he had come to the door first( like most ethical hunters do) and said who he was there probably would not have been the problem. He said he needed to talk with the land owner about the lease. I told him it was his legel obligation to give me the lease I had signed a least 21 days after I signed it, and there would be no more rent till I get it. I would be in his office at 6:30 Wednesday to pick it up.On the way home I went to the Innisfil police department to have what happened Saturday documented. When I got to the agents office after work Wednesday he was not there. The lady at the desk said he wanted me to call him. so we did. now apparently there was not giong to be a lease, so I demanded the papers (lease) I signed back in October. Apparently I must be delusional, I signed a lease and he says I never signed anything and I do not know what I am talking about. Then he hung up after telling me that the land lord is going to tear down my home.
Wednesday May 1st I went into Barrie and filed papers with the land lords and tennant act. When I got home there was a red van in my driveway, I pulled up infront of them, they backed down my driveway and parked ON my grass, I asked then to please get off the grass and turn around on the driveway.( thats why we have one) He bluntly stated he was being considerate to let me pass, (by driving on my grass) (they must be related) The people in the van would not give me their names so I took the plate number and modle of their vehicle. When I got to my door there was an envelope in the corner. Great my eviction notice.
I now have 120 days to be out of my home, where I have lived since I was 10. My daughter was born here and has almost completed all her schooling thank god for that. But the issue still stands that How do I win making minimum wage fighting a multi million dollar corporation? All was great till I told the land owner I did not want him going through my yard with a loaded weapon. Why should these people get away with what they have done and are doing to myself and my family. Thet have endangered myself and my family aswell as my pets, and have made me feel very insecure in my own home.. How do I leave my daughter home alone when people keep showing up, with the possability of the owner showing up again to go hunting.
This all boils down to because I refused to let him tromp through my rented yard with his loaded gun, now hes going to demolish the home in which I reside.
All feed back is greatly appreciated, please e mail me with your help and info….
concerned tennant.
missdoolittle666@hotmail.com
If this is a real serious situation, the best option for you will be to go to a lawyer and file a case against the agent and then the landlord.
There are many lapses on your side also. If you had signed some papers, you should have retained the copies. So try to manage all those evidences in your favour. God Bless.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:07 am
I zoned out about two hundred words into that, so I’d recommend finding an attorney with a better attention span than me.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 9:30 am
If this is a real serious situation, the best option for you will be to go to a lawyer and file a case against the agent and then the landlord.
There are many lapses on your side also. If you had signed some papers, you should have retained the copies. So try to manage all those evidences in your favour. God Bless.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 am
I strongly advise you to go ahead and move within the 120 days. Then I would bring a suit against the corporation for
pain and suffering!!! Get yourself a good lawyer that will back
you all the way!! I would get copies for my lawyer on the police report that you processed!! You should have called
911 the very first time the hunters started tresspassing!!
But, I think you still have a good case!! God Be With You!!
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